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sacred roost
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Classes this expansion feel broken for some of them, and the affix and tanking in general don't feel fun.

fringe marten
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Ikari, I was 100% ok with it when I first saw SL changes. I thought "ohh ok, going back to a standard..pulling 1 pack at a time, simple dungeon crawl...mobs are more nasty? that's fine no biggie"

uneven mason
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and you'd see the highest completed keys drop down to where facetanking was the majority of it.

sacred roost
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you really have NO control, honestly. Probably why bliz lost like, what, 45% of the player base so far.

fringe marten
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Then we go live and it's "OH but there's a couple classes...sooooo..you just run around and let them blow it all up"

uneven mason
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only WoTLK maintained the majority of people who came in for most of the Xpac

sacred roost
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they say that, but this is actually the most they've lost this early in awhile.

signal plover
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I have used my skills as a great arteest to enhance your wise image

heavy sail
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M+ as an end-game gameplay loop is also just uninteresting and unengaging in general for most of the playerbase

sweet summit
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very nice, paw

uneven mason
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You also had a global pandemic creating a massive surge in gaming

heavy sail
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From a game design perspective, they haven’t done much to make people stay.

uneven mason
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which has started dying down

fringe marten
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Yeah true; it doesn't matter HOW good an expac is. A HUGE amount of people come back, play with their friends/family/alone/whatever...get their 'fun' hit whatever point they feel is too grindy, too hard..or too boring and quit.

uneven mason
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people going back to work etc

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So that is why the wave dropped off so strongly.

heavy sail
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WoW has followed a boom and bust curve for a while now, it’s just more extreme this time for the exact reason Ikari mentioned.

mossy sluice
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our guild got such a surge of new players in nyalotha when the pandemic started

sacred roost
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I guess, I'm kinda waiting on New World, got like, what since beta in this game, and I'm getting kinda sick of it, not really having fun anymore.

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can't seem to stop playing htough

fringe marten
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I'm still actively playing but I took 2 weeks off essentially, and was raid logging only..to play valheim.

signal plover
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Kek New World

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GL on that one man

heavy sail
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There’s no MMO that hits the same spot as WoW, nothing so far anyway. I’m hoping ashes of creation amounts to something but not holding my breath for it.

fringe marten
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Everyone that touched new world really liked it; understanding that it was of course unpolished and had plenty of time left in the oven.

sacred roost
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I could go play FFXIV, neither of my guilds are really going for mythic raid tier, and I have AOTC.

signal plover
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Ya ashes is rly the only one left on my radar.

sacred roost
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Pantheon _ Rise of the Fallen is the other on mine.

signal plover
sacred roost
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if it ever comes out, ashes seems like it's gonna be to PVP focus'd

heavy sail
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New world is interesting but I wasn’t captivated at all by what I’ve seen from it. Seems like a run of the mill MMO that will die from content drought.

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Like they set themselves up for unsustainability

sacred roost
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there remaking the system due to customer requests though, so might work out.

uneven mason
signal plover
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The thing is, wow is a good game

fringe marten
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And what you're saying about M+ has always been true; and blizzard THEMSELVES killed the thing that made it even considerable as an end game loop..IE the quality of loot. The people left doing it, literally do it like...mostly for the vault, and then a VERY small portion of people left using a third party website/addon to turn it into a high end personal challenge.

uneven mason
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Don't lie paw

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Wow is garbage

heavy sail
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People interact with MMO games way differently in 2021 than they did back when the genre was new.

signal plover
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It's not tho

uneven mason
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We just play it because we're all masochists

jolly thistle
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It’s still the best mmo available

heavy sail
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WoW is the standard, but it’s a pretty bad standard to be honest. Blizzard treats the game more often like a pump and dump than a passion project.

signal plover
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It's excellent, M raiding is fun, m+ and pvp with my guildies is fun.

heavy sail
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You can tell they’ve lost the love for it over the years.

fringe marten
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No; wow is ..? a very good mmo..the problem is MMO's have evolved, what people want has evolved..how companies provide their business model for an MMO has evolved..etc.

signal plover
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It's certainly different now than it was in vanilla

signal plover
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No

fringe marten
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But there's still a big chunk of mmo players chasing a dragon; one they will never get back. The "omg I feel like I can play it forever..it'll never end.."

uneven mason
jolly thistle
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I’ve tried a lot of them... warhammer, gw, swtor etc most of them failed at the endgame

heavy sail
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Like if we’re content saying WoW is very good and couldn’t be made way better, we’re definitely settling for a sub-par product imo.

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But that’s just my perspective.

uneven mason
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Warhammer endgame was 100% PVP< the PVE stuff wasn't there at all.
SWTOR endgame was a single raid and incentiveless PVP

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Failed massively

signal plover
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Saying something is very good is not the same as saying it can't be improved

fringe marten
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If you're in your 20 sometthings. Hell your 30's even..and you started wow when you were a teenager, or just hitting 20'ish and it was your first mmo. You literally aren't the same person you were then, you will never EVER EVER get the same feeling you had playing it back then.

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and you won't get it from ANY other mmo EVER either.

uneven mason
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I was already old and bitter 25 year old when WoW hit my desk

soft lotus
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some people say they've felt that way again after breaks. So your claim is just a claim

fringe marten
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But companies keep trying to build a better mousetrap, because we keep coming back HOPING to chase that feeling again. You have honeymoon phase..the game is awesome/fun for X amount of time; and then it's done.

uneven mason
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I had been through 5 years of Everquest already and wow just looked like clownshoes loot on rails

heavy sail
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Idk, OSRS has a way of captivating me the same way it did back in 2004 whenever I load it up. That’s probably more to do with the visuals not changing though.

signal plover
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Breaks help, breaking out of the community slogfest and complaint circlejerks helps a lot as well.

uneven mason
heavy sail
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Shadowlands is in almost every facet an improvement over BfA, so I’ll just be content with that.

fringe marten
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Same..I've been doing mmo's since they've existed, literally. For me..it's Everquest. It was the greatest video game I've ever played, and ever will play in my life..period. Nothing will ever be as addictive, as all consuming as EQ was..ever again.

heavy sail
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But at this stage before the next tier releases, I have almost no reason to ever log in.

signal plover
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Mwahi the Wise says "it's a game, play how you want to"

uneven mason
jolly thistle
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What do you expect? There’s a reason why it’s called gaming >industry<. They want to make money out of it. Blizz isn’t some smol indie company even if they act like one sometimes.

heavy sail
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Idk I kind of disagree with that notion

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If blizzard wanted to make the most money possible they’d just continually service fans.

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But they don’t do that

uneven mason
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Erm

heavy sail
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They go whale hunting

mossy sluice
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wat

uneven mason
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Their CEO legit just got paid 200million $

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bonus

sacred roost
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I have no space for more buttons! 🙂

uneven mason
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"I don't think they're out to just make money"

fringe marten
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It's funny, looking back at Everquest.. I sat in Guk..6, 10+ hours..way more than that..PER DAY. as an ogre warrior..pulling frogs then hitting ONE button to start auto attack, and ONE button to 'slam' (or kick, or bash if you were a smaller race) that was IT. that was the ENTIRE gameplay

sacred roost
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who? blizzard? bullshit

fringe marten
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pushing up a yellow/orange xp bar...tiny tiny TINY amounts at a time.

heavy sail
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They’re definitely out to make money, but they’re not maximizing profit in a way that’s sustainable or even optimal imo.

fringe marten
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and I LOVED it, had way more fun than anything wow has ever had.

sacred roost
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sunwell was pretty fun

uneven mason
fringe marten
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DUDE that's why you got the dark elf skin mask bro..so you could cast the illusion and shrink yourself~

uneven mason
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"TRAIN INc....crap theres a shaman trying to get through Deadside, GUESS WE'LL ALL DIE THEN!"

soft lotus
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feel like there was a time around 2001-2004 where "spending your life online" was a thing everybody (edit: many/some) expected to be the future. Like second life.
That idea has disappeared almost completely. Maybe due to smartphones?

uneven mason
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Or just be Darkelf master race to begin with

fringe marten
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But yes; until I got that mask...I literally b locked hallways.

signal plover
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I mean, it says a lot about a personal mindset when you convince yourself that clicking three buttons is more fun than mythic Sludgefist.

uneven mason
sacred roost
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I remember I was in Kunark on an iksar monk when the twin towers got hit.

uneven mason
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I still go back to EQ TLPs because its like, zen meditation for me

fringe marten
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Trixter, there's tons of reasons for it. But yeah..that was the idea of the MMO; it never ended..you never 'won' you were chasing shit forever, and building that character...forever.. When they launched Everquest they had ? No concept of when the game would 'end' or servers would shut down..or how they'd even ? move forward other than..more content and expansions. But you kept growing THE SAME character with the same stats/abilities.

uneven mason
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that gamplay is 100% muscle memory and I can just chill and chat with people.

signal plover
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Just more overall positivity in communities as well

uneven mason
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You obviously didn't play on Fennin Ro

signal plover
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And the world as a whole

fringe marten
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Yeah my account is still there but it's owned by? isn't it owned by the company that owns like..? PUBG?

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or something?

mossy sluice
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daybreak

signal plover
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Kekbreak

fringe marten
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I went back and played like...? a year or two ago..for a couple months.

fringe marten
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had like? 8000 AA points or some shit LOL

uneven mason
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just got sold to some other company

soft lotus
sacred roost
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the rumor is daybreak is comming out with a nother EQ, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

mossy sluice
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that stuff got cancelled

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eq next

uneven mason
sacred roost
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no, it's after they split, it's not eq nextr

uneven mason
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Daybreak sold Darkpaw

fringe marten
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Still though, to this DAY... AA points are the best character progression system I've ever seen in an mmo; and I wish it was a thing still.

uneven mason
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or something

mossy sluice
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i fucking despised AA's

mossy sluice
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luclin was so shit coming off of velious

uneven mason
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AA points were the "loot treadmill" of a game that had restricted access to loot

fringe marten
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I say...that I want it back; but at this age now, the way games just ARE now? I'd probably hate it.

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Dude no AA points were amazing.

uneven mason
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I hate it every TLP, I last until AAs get out of hand in DoDH

heavy sail
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MMOs are cost-prohibitive, and the development time is so long and expensive that it just doesn’t meet the curve that people expect in today’s age. Like I was saying earlier it’s the kind of boom and bust we see now.

sacred roost
fringe marten
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Your character grew in strength, just by playing..all the time..killing mobs. That's what ya' do~ kill stuff.

heavy sail
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Where a new expansion or content release sees huge expansion and then an immediate and steep fall off.

uneven mason
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Playerauctions blog?

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I wouldn't even count on that to be remotely factual

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Hell, I hardly trusted that site to sell my accounts

heavy sail
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I sold my RS3 main on that site keksquad

fringe marten
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And the idea of contested bosses, with the best loot AMAZING. But? I don't think I could stomach it any more.

heavy sail
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For like 350 USD

uneven mason
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65 Time geared necro $2500 during GoD

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bought my ass a new computer to play EQ2 on (ended up being WoW)

fringe marten
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But the idea of a raid zone being an elemental plane, and it being ...super hard, and the boss just shits in your face; because you simply have to gear up..and grind up..2000 AA points, or you will just get dookied on. Is fine by me.

heavy sail
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I used the money to buy a new graphics card, was dope.

fringe marten
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They didn't give a shit how hard the content was; they never built it for 'everyone' to experience.

uneven mason
fringe marten
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Yeah but the older content wasn't.

uneven mason
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legit 2 enchanters 2 clerics a ranger and a necro got first clear in PoFire on Fennin Ro 😄

mossy sluice
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aa farm was just me afking in a party while two warriors w/ the eq weapon in plane of fire farmed aa's for me

fringe marten
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Lord nagafen, Lady Vox...at EQ launch. Were LEGIT mythic creatures. People weren't sure they were in the game

uneven mason
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I mean, you could walk up a ramp and see Naggy

mossy sluice
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vox wasn't that deep into permafrost either

fringe marten
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ANd when people killed them, they were bind rushing..naked..throwing themselves at a dragon to kill it.. like..80 people+

soft lotus
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online databases changed a lot about the conversation of games

mossy sluice
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think i found her on a like level 13

uneven mason
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you could see through the walls by ducking on short races

fringe marten
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Right; but where were you talking about that? locally IN game

uneven mason
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Vox was literally through a room with 5 level 25~ goblins, and just poking your head into a cubby

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

fringe marten
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or MAYBE posting on Allakhazam if you were trying to help the community.

uneven mason
fringe marten
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Early internet; different time..different everything. So a game so simple it was legit running around and then pushing 1 button to fight...was a ton of fun.

uneven mason
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yup, big 3d version of D&D

fringe marten
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And casters..? Looking at a book to get your mana back..literally.

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like..WHAT?

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the concept of that now is insane.

soft lotus
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i remember concerned confusion the first time I had to control a game with wasd instead of arrow keys

fringe marten
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"how do you play a caster in Everquest?" "you cast a spell..a bunch of times" "cool..then what?" "then you sit, and a book fills your screen and you do nothing" "then what" "that's the game..you're doing it"

soft lotus
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ye :D

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"hmmm clicking letters you say"

uneven mason
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think I'ma play some blackmesa when I get home

fringe marten
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Clerics..best healers in game? What did they do? Complete heal chain..."casting Cheal...Next player in 8 seconds.." "/sit"

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^ literally raiding in everquest.

uneven mason
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you forget the AE AE AE AE 5 SECONDS

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because no bossmods

fringe marten
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whoah whoah...that's WAY too advanced.

uneven mason
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so you had a stopwatch and raidleader with a macro

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<-- raidleader with macro

fringe marten
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yup lol

soft lotus
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reminds me of the way CTraid in early wow communicated with other CTraid addons

fringe marten
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The idea even, of a mob that hits more than 1 person at a time. ANY mob that did that, was a raid boss. only raid bosses did it.

uneven mason
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most difficult tanking mechanic - setting up Rampage lists

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nix that, most difficult tanking mechanic - mobs being pushed by dozens of pets

fringe marten
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that's..? 2? xpacs in? Ruins of kunark didn't have it did it?

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MOB PUSHING!!! omg

uneven mason
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Kunark had flurry/rampage

fringe marten
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Yeah kunark was it..ok so 1 xpac in.

uneven mason
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VP

sick sentinel
uneven mason
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had flurry raptors

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and drakes

fringe marten
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Takamura; it was a different time as I said. However; it's because it gave (at the time) the concept of INFINITE character growth. Without equipment.

uneven mason
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iirc cazic and innoruuk could also rampage

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but they've changed them so many times

signal plover
fringe marten
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AA points were true character power, and at the time..maxing them was? not even a thing you were considering ever would happen.

uneven mason
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AAs were cancer past PoP

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OoW hit and I was like "Oh I legit need to spend 400% the time on this 'alternate' system than I did actually getting my 5 levels"

fringe marten
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WoW has never had anything comparable, in a very small way you might make a parallel to azerite necklace power, or the legion artifact power...maybe?

uneven mason
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SO, yeah, it kinda does

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its incremental growth in character power, thye just did it better than Everquests "Sit here for 14 hours and kill the same 27 mobs repeatedly"

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You could make hte argument that any sort of currency that allows you to control character growth is on par with AA systems

fringe marten
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If WoW had anything like AA points, it would be ? patched out of the game..or made purchasable at a faction vendor or something. Because sweaty's would grind SO hard, no one else could possibly compete in ANY way. it would shatter PVP, competitive raiding..M+..etc.

uneven mason
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like, Valor?

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Not any more than minmaxing loot

balmy coral
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I have the following trinkets, which should I use for mythic+ and raiding.

213 glutt
200 Al'ar
207 bladedancer
197 anima field
220 power crystal
213 macabre

uneven mason
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Anima field and powercrystal?

fringe marten
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It is though. There's a lottery system to that, and you will only get it so fast..and every tuesday even the casuals have a shot at an item of the same strength you have. AA's are pure linear Time = Power..and the grinds some players would find a way to do in WoW would be DISGUSTING.

balmy coral
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Right now I'm running glutt and Al'ar for mythic+, debating what to run for raids.

fringe marten
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Glut/field for raid...or Glut/power

uneven mason
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Glutti ns't bad in M+

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its sufficiently "meh"

signal plover
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Guys it's ok to admit that a modern game is different than something you did 30 years ago. It won't marginalize your past achievements.

fringe marten
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no, and the 213 is 'eh' the 226 actually is very good.

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It's not about marginalizing them; it's about why they just can't have that system again.

signal plover
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Who cares

uneven mason
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It was a bad system, is why they don't want that system.

balmy coral
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I feel like glut for raid is pointless, as it does so little damage

uneven mason
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Right, so use AFE

balmy coral
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197 field > 213 macabre?

uneven mason
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yes

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Macbre is a trap

fringe marten
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Yeah; and you likely don't 'need' the healing in raid near as much..

uneven mason
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just vendor it

balmy coral
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It sims higher for me for fury

uneven mason
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its a trap

balmy coral
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Why?

uneven mason
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because the ghosts can (and will frequently) spawn outside of melee range

fringe marten
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Macabre is not a trap; it simply has the same problems other things do; like reprisal... (to a lesser degree) Do you wanna go through the work/irritation of DOING the thing to make it work.

balmy coral
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So for single target/raids use Al'ar and anima or power crystal.

fringe marten
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Macabre is much worse though; because now you're moving a boss in raid...for your haste.

uneven mason
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Al'ar is if you don't trust your healers

balmy coral
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I love reprisal, I intervene melee a ton.

uneven mason
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if you don't think you should be worried about dying

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don't use alar

balmy coral
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So for raids I can see that.

fringe marten
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I am still Kyrian/Pelagos...and I FKN HATE IT on sludgefist right now. On the pillar charges I'm waiting until the chain on us breaks for a few seconds so I can collect my FKN ORBS.

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and during normal phases I'm having to seperate from cotank to collect them; usually not an issue but sometimes is.

rigid edge
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Reprisal is the best for raiding too? Hmmm

fringe marten
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Almost all "spawns a thing near you, collect it for powerup" are irritating/problematic as a tank or dps to use.

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The best one they've ever made IMO was the goblet of ichor in emerald nightmare. The globs moved TO YOU

balmy coral
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It's rare I can't charge a fee times in a raid. Especially like sludgefist it's amazing for. Also intervene your tank if they are getting low.

mossy sluice
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you intervene your co tank on sludge your health may be an issue

fringe marten
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So he's not wrong in saying macabre is a trap; it's honestly a very powerful trinket but you will constantly run into annoying moments where utilizing it is either difficult, or impossible without honestly sacrificing the integrity of the combat encounter for it.

plush tendon
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So sad the guy who writes the wowhead guy changed Necrolord from 'excellent' to just 'good' now 😦

mossy sluice
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was it llarold

plush tendon
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Waiving my slightly sadder banner now

mossy sluice
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the snitch

balmy coral
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I run necro anyway, it's really fun for fury.

fossil sparrow
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waiving your banner?

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my banner despawns half the time

amber herald
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did they nerf it?

plush tendon
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no

fringe marten
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Just to try it, and have fun with something new..and maybe find utility in it; I'd go necrolord if the swapping covenants wasn't a dumpster fire.

plush tendon
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Just word choice

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XD

fossil sparrow
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I swapped to necro 3days ago

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it's not bad, but yeah swapping covs is ass

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it blows my mind how covenants got through alpha

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but if this was my main, I wouldnt of swapped

plush tendon
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The only scenario I see myself swapping away from Necro is if I switch my DK to Necro, my paladin to Venthyr, and my War to NF

fossil sparrow
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that's the other issue, I have 4 60s, 1 of each cov

fringe marten
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No it's good, all the covenants right now ..for prot warrior are? solid choices for various reasons in various situations. With Venthyr probably being the worst where other covenants PURELY for prot warrior are better in most every way, in most situations.

fossil sparrow
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by the time shadowlands ends most classes will have better covensnts

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whether it be 9.1, 9.2 or 9.3

plush tendon
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How does everyone feel about the ToP and Plaguefall dungeon buffs now?

fossil sparrow
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it's shortsighted shit from blizzard, as per

fringe marten
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oh LOL? buffing dungeons now?

plush tendon
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no I mean the 3 banners in ToP or the buffs from slime in Plaguefall

uneven mason
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The necrolord buffs in ToP

balmy coral
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I like necro, channel flesh craft with another CD up is nice.

uneven mason
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they're pretty hot

balmy coral
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I channel flesh craft a fair bit for not attacking damage

uneven mason
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I'd swap if I wasn't addicted to my powdery glitter blue explosion

fringe marten
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Jesus blizz "we notice that a high % of keys in these dungeons don't get completed...we're addressing that" "you guys are completing these dungeons now, nice...now we're addressing that" ?! BRUH?

plush tendon
uneven mason
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altho fuck those roc in pf

fringe marten
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ok; I honestly didn't even put it past blizz..not even for ONE second.

fossil sparrow
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what'st he goto talent setup, idk what I'm doing for m+

plush tendon
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😛

uneven mason
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oof

mossy sluice
uneven mason
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3 1/2 2 2 3 1

plush tendon
sudden kayak
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witch legendary should we wear for prot for mythic dungeons

uneven mason
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reprisal

plush tendon
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Reprisal or The Wall

uneven mason
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The wall, now who's being boring

plush tendon
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Hey man, its a option

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I run reprisal, but The Wall is a alternative should you prefer it

uneven mason
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Seismic if you wanna make your DPS cry

plush tendon
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Now thats a spicey option

uneven mason
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Seismic is indeed spicy

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going to use it to spam run +2s

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for valor

plush tendon
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I do wonder if theyll add more legos to the pool

uneven mason
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yes

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and one will be OP

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so we'll have to switch

plush tendon
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yea, thats what im hoping they dont do

uneven mason
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keeping us continually feeding on that Borghast teet

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I hate that place

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so much

plush tendon
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The best way to do it is with 1-2 other people

uneven mason
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it used to be a challenge when I was in like, 180 gear

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almost

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Why would I punish myself by doing it with a group?

plush tendon
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Well, I have friends so we do it together

uneven mason
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when I can finish it in 30minutes by just trucking from entrance to exit

plush tendon
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get a DH and a boomkin to help out

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XD

uneven mason
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I have friends too, and they can learn how to ignore anima powers and kill bosses like I do

plush tendon
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makes it less boring, and they easily pull their weight

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naw, I like getting powers

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but i usually dont go out of my way for them

uneven mason
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"temporary power boost, its like a new expansion hits every time you finish!"

plush tendon
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: ^)

uneven mason
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ever since they started placing "lore" reasons on borrowed power they've gotten out of control

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In Legion we had super cosmic artifact weapons

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which got drained, and we were sad

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then it was the blood of the planet, OH and then the blood of an old god

#

layered borrowed power MY FAVORITE TYPE, Like Neapolitan icecream.

plush tendon
#

I miss the glory days of corruption and my full vers set 🙂

uneven mason
#

Now we have Covenants and conduits

#

and legendaries

rigid edge
#

Meanwhile, Sylvannas does evil stuff

uneven mason
#

I mean, we've learned right? Don't go directly for the big bad, cut their source of power first.

celest field
#

Btw what covenants are BiS for tanking M+?

uneven mason
#

yes?

rigid edge
#

Borrrowed Powers Are so boring imo

uneven mason
#

my new warrior is going to not pick a covenant

mystic ember
plush tendon
uneven mason
#

NF is big pipes

celest field
#

I was thinking about NF too

#

That extra shockwave seems good

mossy sluice
#

theyre all good

balmy coral
#

220 power crystal and 197 anima field is my best choice right? Or as a tank for raids should I swap out power crystal for macabre?

plush tendon
#

they are all strong; The only reason I didnt go NF was the Necrolord Tmog on point, and dungeon buffs (I also dont like Ardenweald and like Maldraxxus cause I'm edgy like that)

uneven mason
#

no

uneven mason
#

keep power crystal and AFE

stable kernel
#

NF is just not me so its Necro/Kyr

uneven mason
#

but I'm so addicted to Aftershock

balmy coral
#

You really hate macabre lol

plush tendon
#

Reskin Ancient Aftershock for Necrolord and no one is a fairy

uneven mason
#

that trinket is ass

plush tendon
#

its bad

uneven mason
balmy coral
#

What about bladedancer.

mossy sluice
#

even worse

uneven mason
#

just delete it

#

don't even vendor

#

you don't want gold that dirty

plush tendon
balmy coral
#

So bank it?

uneven mason
#

No

#

get rid of it

balmy coral
#

Equip it for mythic sire? Got it!

uneven mason
#

if you want

plush tendon
#

Go to Dazar Alor to the scrapper, scrap it for Explosum, then vender that explosum

uneven mason
#

trinkets all in all are quite sad

#

it won't make or break you

#

but if you can wear it for MSire

#

do so

#

and meme the crap out of it.

uneven mason
#

I mean, I don't think so

plush tendon
#

Not sure

uneven mason
#

but if I can scrap stuff for bits in BFA

plush tendon
#

But its probably the best place to bring that trinket

uneven mason
#

Best place to bring that trinket is just Shift click when you loot SD chests and if the trinket is in there, leave it, and let it rot for 30 days in your mailbox

balmy coral
#

I had a 210 blood-spattered scale drop. Vendored that shit soo fast. Was hoping for an quantum device.

uneven mason
#

If I could I'd mail you one

#

I've gotten 5 between 223 - 226

uneven mason
#

He's obviously joking

balmy coral
#

It's useless?

balmy coral
plush tendon
#

I can never tell anymore

#

Ive seen some.... questionable things

mystic ocean
#

When looking at trinkets for m+, do you guys just go for dmg after getting a scale? Feeling pretty safe with reprisal now.

uneven mason
#

damage is the way to go yes.

wanton condor
#

I don't trust my healers so you'll rip my heart out of my cold unbeating chest

plush tendon
#

Yea, tank trinkets are quite bad overall. I will say Alar still has a place should you feel the need or are pushing content you arent comfortable with; but it shouldnt be the go to for content you know you can do

uneven mason
#

it'll explode probably taking 2 of your DPS with you

#

but yeah alar comes out when I PUG

mossy sluice
#

ride together die together

plush tendon
#

This is why i love Necrolord; sitting in my cheat for 10 seconds letting my whole group know that I died

#

of course, they never believe me.... but sometimes the shaman/druid listens and is ready to drop the trees/stone boi down

uneven mason
#

THen you have tanks who use dreamweaver

mystic ocean
#

I just flat out leave high keys when the druids dont have trees skilled

plush tendon
#

I dont even understand that one

uneven mason
#

legit facepalmed when I saw a guardian druid go into his little seedpod

plush tendon
#

LEL

fossil sparrow
#

if you need trees, you're a bad player, fact

plush tendon
#

Trees are a DPS gain

wanton condor
#

Podtender is the best, you get to sit there are let the healer truly understand the weight of their fuck ups

fossil sparrow
#

no they're not

mystic ocean
#

i dont NEED trees

plush tendon
#

for you they are

mystic ocean
#

its just running away then

wanton condor
#

YOU DID THIS NOW SUFFER

uneven mason
#

Trees are professional play

plush tendon
#

If the content is EZ, I dont ask for trees.

fossil sparrow
#

for the 100times I've said this playing boomkin, trees are optional

#

just like a prot warrior is for a "serious" tank

mossy sluice
#

wat

plush tendon
#

But they are incredibly strong no matter what tank is being played

uneven mason
#

my perfect group is 4boomkin in resto affinity and me tanking

mystic ocean
#

They give the tank the opportunity to do dmg themselves

sudden kayak
#

what stat do we put on reprisal feet legendary

uneven mason
#

haste/vers

plush tendon
uneven mason
#

like every other lego

#

or haste/crit

#

if you're feeling saucy

mossy sluice
sudden kayak
#

o kk

uneven mason
#

saucy

mossy sluice
#

225 pepsihands

uneven mason
#

I made seismic at the same time

#

10ilvls on a lego isn't a big deal, as long as you have the lego

#

*deeply regrets upgrading wall to rank 4 just before reprisal changes went in

#

since I haven't touched TW in raid since

primal mauve
#

WHat do you guys think of Night Fae covenant for Prot warrior? I'd think I would like to be able to soulshape on my slow ass warrior

mossy sluice
#

all covs are good

uneven mason
#

warrior slow

#

oof, don't try a DK, Druid, Paladin then

mossy sluice
#

druid being slow?

uneven mason
#

Unless you're in feral affinity yeah

primal mauve
#

Yeah I understand Kyrian and Necro are top, but Night Fae tat far behind is?

uneven mason
#

even then

#

Necro not top

#

SpaceGhost didn't you literally ask this question like 5x over the past week?

#

pretty sure you've asked this like every day

primal mauve
#

No I have not

plush tendon
#

I would put NF=Kyrian>=Necro>Venthyr

uneven mason
#

NF is tied with Kyrian for #1

#

bit more offensive build than Kyrian

fossil sparrow
#

it's been a slow 3days at the necrolord base, no other warriors

uneven mason
#

Necro is if you're a simp or have a concrete group that benefts from it

fossil sparrow
primal mauve
#

Yeah and I dont have aa grp

uneven mason
#

so, Kyrian or NF will feel better overall

primal mauve
#

Cool, plus I get to soulshape into a turtle

uneven mason
#

go Venthyr if you wanna be all emo and slap single target

pallid kraken
#

is heavy repercussions still bad compared to the other 2 options, even with reprisal?

primal mauve
#

I hate Revendrath though

plush tendon
#

yea, if you dont have a group, or dont play with a consistent group of people, then Necro is not worth

uneven mason
#

I mean, yeah, if turtles are your thing.

primal mauve
#

stupidest zone

#

amd I hate vampires

plush tendon
uneven mason
#

HR is too RNG reliant to provide serious value

#

both AM and Bolster offer greater gains in RPS and damage

plush tendon
#

should just be a passive TBH

#

not a talent

pallid kraken
#

Fairs

uneven mason
#

yeah HR is one of those talents they could make baseline for QoL

astral crystal
#

AM pls

uneven mason
#

but what would they replace it with

#

AM will never be baseline

mossy sluice
#

isn't hr worse w/ reprisal becuase the extra extended shield block uptime is less impactful

uneven mason
#

Yes

astral crystal
#

fury and arms have it sadge

uneven mason
#

?

#

they don't have AM Baseline

plush tendon
#

hell, give us HR baseline, and bring back Glad Stance XD

astral crystal
#

o guess not

#

anyway make AM baseline

uneven mason
#

Arms doesn't even use AM

#

heck fury doesn't either in most situations

#

No glad stance plz

astral crystal
#

listen here, i dont know about those damage dealing specs

pallid kraken
#

glad stance 👀

sweet summit
#

questionmark

#

fury uses AM in all content

uneven mason
#

yeah, thats true (I had been doing it, just not thinking it)

pallid kraken
#

fury has garbage tier 50 talents right? except am

sturdy sable
#

So does arms If they are venthyr

uneven mason
#

ehhhhh

pallid kraken
#

thought arms love dreadnaught

uneven mason
#

SB and Reckless are not horrible

sweet summit
#

fury tier 50 are all good

uneven mason
#

but you take AM to line up CDs

#

because Signet

sturdy sable
#

Venth arms runs rav to feed condemn windows

grave crane
#

Arms loves dreadnaught in pvp and ravaged in pve

plush tendon
#

I wonder if instead of extending SB by 1 sec, if HR reduced the CD of SB by 1 sec if it would be better

pallid kraken
#

ic ic ic

sturdy sable
#

Naw non venth arms uses dread @grave crane

uneven mason
pallid kraken
#

i hate venthyr and main prot so

#

aint well versed in it

sturdy sable
#

That's exactly what I said @uneven mason

uneven mason
#

feeding condemn and just not interrupt them are 2 diff things 😛

grave crane
#

I used dreadnuaght in pvp as venthyr and it worked great

uneven mason
#

yeah DN is the play in some content

grave crane
#

Because I used BS to immune CC

uneven mason
#

like M+ you don't use rav

sturdy sable
#

Here we go again splitting hairs

uneven mason
#

rav is for ST

sturdy sable
#

Dread for aoe

pallid kraken
#

DN also feels amazing, which is the true WoW endgame

uneven mason
#

No, thats not a technicality Dosqueis, that's literally saying 2 different things.

grave crane
#

I separated them for pvp and pve

primal mauve
#

Hey waht do you guys think of the Night Fae covenant for Prot?

mossy sluice
#

jesus christ

sturdy sable
#

👍

sweet summit
#

night fae is poggers

mossy sluice
uneven mason
#

Dude seriously

elfin nova
#

interesting

mossy sluice
uneven mason
#

SpaceGhost you have been asking the same question

#

for days

wind surge
#

damnit

plush tendon
#

LEL

wind surge
#

he got spotted

#

🕵️

uneven mason
#

Shit or get off the pot

sweet summit
#

???

jagged pier
#

@mossy sluice the detective
Detective

primal mauve
signal plover
#

Perhaps he thinks there's more than like a dozen of us in here

uneven mason
elfin nova
#

I might go venthyr

uneven mason
#

How else would I end up being #9 at something on my server

#

when theres only 10 of us

sturdy sable
sweet summit
#

just

#

go arms

#

i cba

#

ur both saying the same thing

#

get over it

plush tendon
primal mauve
#

lol Ive asked about night fae cause I just saw a video on youtube which uploaded today. no way ive been asking for days

plush tendon
#

The only thing we concern ourselves over here with is how hard our revenge is hitting

sweet summit
#

night fae is very good damage

primal mauve
#

its not really revenge if it hits soft

signal plover
#

Huh

chilly brook
uneven mason
#

Revenge big slap

#

Ok, I'm going todo it tonight

#

going NL

chilly brook
uneven mason
#

Gonna put on some boomer metal

#

and grind out some renown to Manowar

uneven mason
#

Griff didn't you go Venthyr?

sweet summit
chilly brook
#

Yes because I'm fury

uneven mason
#

Simping to your meters

#

when NF could've padded just as well

chilly brook
#

Sure if 140dps loss is just as good

uneven mason
#

feels inconsequential

signal plover
chilly brook
uneven mason
#

Oh you guys misunderstand, I'm not going NL for other people

#

I'm going NL for Xmog

sweet summit
#

the mog isnt even good????????

uneven mason
#

Best

#

Mog

chilly brook
#

Plus I got an enhance shaman so I'd be dumb to not play arms for certain bosses

uneven mason
#

weapons too

#

Ooo you have a simp to support you

#

carry on then

#

I can imagine Griff "Totem slave, place my Windfury 👉 there".

chilly brook
plush tendon
#

so where can I find one these 'totem specialists?'

sweet summit
#

ebay

plush tendon
#

ewww, no prime delivery

charred osprey
#

How does reprisal affect gearing in m+? Wasnt crit King couse u didnt have full uptime on Block. And now u do. Is vers=haste gonna be king now?

frosty estuary
#

crit was never king

plush tendon
#

Crit is for chad pumpers

chilly brook
#

Crit was never king

#

It just is nice dam

#

And some parry

charred osprey
#

I was sure it was couse thats what i read like 2months ago before i took break from warrior :p maybe i remembered wrong

#

But thx for clarifying ^^

chilly brook
#

Yea remembering wrong lol

faint plaza
#

for venth. which soul bind. nadjia?

strong forum
sweet summit
uneven mason
#

Venthyr mog just FITs odd, like the "Wing" bits just protrude at stupid angles

sweet summit
#

you're not supposed to use the wings :/

hot oxide
#

i honestly dont understand how armor still clips when it's brand new

outer solstice
#

lol

#

have you tried gnome?

#

everything clips

#

shoulders are gigantic

#

and shields too close

hot oxide
#

i tried worgen with the venth rogue, i had no left shoulder

outer solstice
#

only the gigantic shields work for gnomes

red tree
#

Forget the sets, sinful glad set best set

outer solstice
#

so legendary shield and bulwark

#

yep sinful glad is amazing

#

but still ckips

#

clips

hot oxide
#

i tried mechagnome, it was....different...

outer solstice
#

lol mechagnome wear no pants

sweet summit
#

sinful glad is actually pretty fucking sick i really like it

hot oxide
#

if you dont have heritage mechagnome armor, just stop

outer solstice
#

gnome heritage armor is actually really sweet

uneven mason
#

Imagine playing alliance

outer solstice
#

imagine following meta xD

uneven mason
#

Feels like running around in a daycare over there

autumn pendant
#

Imagine imagining

sweet summit
#

HELLO RAZONKO

#

HOW ARE YOU

uneven mason
hot oxide
#

i'm both

outer solstice
#

2004 xD xD

sweet summit
#

same

#

:v)

outer solstice
#

back when the game was balanced

autumn pendant
#

Well

#

Bit washed up

#

But all good

outer solstice
#

what expansion was 2004?

#

was that BC already?

autumn pendant
#

None

#

No

#

No exapc

#

That was Vanilla time

hot oxide
#

tbc was the first expac, and that was 05

outer solstice
#

yeah long time back

#

yeah wasn't sure if it was 05 or 04

autumn pendant
#

about that

#

buddy

outer solstice
#

lol

#

it was 07

#

xD

hot oxide
#

07

outer solstice
#

man memory.... kill me plz

autumn pendant
#

Now you got it

hot oxide
#

January 16, 2007

autumn pendant
#

Yes google

#

👀

outer solstice
#

but yeah faction imbalance wasn't a thing back then it was quite good and mostly dependant on the realm anyway

#

nowadays faction imbalance is a real problem

hot oxide
#

eh, i was a BE forever

#

arcane torrent was amazing

outer solstice
#

kick, torrent, kick, fear, kick, stun, kick .... yeah

uneven mason
#

TBC was 07~

#

we had no Xpacs for 2 years 3~ months basically

#

was crazy coming from other MMOs 6 month cycle

hot oxide
#

October 28–29 - BlizzCon 2005 (the first BlizzCon)

Burning Crusade announced

uneven mason
#

basically shut down a lot of raiding guilds prior to naxx

#

because people thought the Xpac was right around the corner

#

sad times

chilly brook
#

Let's be real

#

I think a lot of those raiding guilds wouldn't have gone anywhere back then

sweet summit
hasty heath
#

Is Viscera of Coalesced Hatred shitter than shit?

sweet summit
#

its not that shit but its quite shit

hasty heath
#

So it's half a shit ok

uneven mason
#

its a shart

outer solstice
#

I mean it's decent DPS, but it provides near 0 defense

#

the healing is so minor

sterile moss
#

I like how the mistweaver is talking

faint plaza
#

new to tanking, what addon do you use for routes? MDT?

sweet summit
#

yea

hasty heath
#

still farming the DoS trinket so i only have that / [Stone Legion Heraldry] and the Miasma one atm

faint plaza
#

is there a good place to get import string?

#

and do they change weekly?

outer solstice
#

yep

#

rio frontpage

sterile moss
#
outer solstice
#

yep

faint plaza
#

awesome, thanks alot. any prefernce to the rout with no skips v skips?

outer solstice
#

depends on the group

#

the skip routes are quite good often, but not every group can do them

#

for pugs I'd go with the no skip

#

but in dungeons like HoA that means you can't set up prides for 2nd and 3rd boss

faint plaza
#

hrmm, ok

#

i have KSM as dps. is it worth going skip routs considering that level of keys

outer solstice
#

usually when I run a 15+ with my guild we take the 5-10 minutes before the run

#

and talk over the route

faint plaza
#

itll be mostly pugs for me

outer solstice
#

skip routes are not that hard tbh, but I don't trust pugs

#

and only for things like HoA tyrannical I'd say it's a must

#

there you usually do 2 skips

#

you skip the bridge

#

and the first pack after the gauntlet

#

but after 2nd boss you clear the whole ring instead

faint plaza
#

kk, ty for all the input

#

ill prob start with some lower keys to try it

outer solstice
#

also, I HATE PUGS

faint plaza
#

i pugged ksm as a dps war

#

so it is what it is

#

lol

outer solstice
#

do yourself a favor, if you have the gear, don't go below 10ß

#

setting up pride properly is important

faint plaza
#

yeah i figured id try to find some 10-12s

#

im 221 in my prot gear

#

just feel nervous bout the routes so want to start small

uneven mason
#

routs change at 10

outer solstice
#

routes don't get harder though

uneven mason
#

routs literally don't matter below 10

#

you can basically RP walk through a dungeon spamming revenge in 9 and below

outer solstice
#

damn, just looked at our lady tries from last night.... haven't eaten a single ghost in our best try xD I was soooo not seeing some of them when the 3rd adds came up xD guess I got lucky xD

faint plaza
#

yeah thats why ill start at 10+ but i feel like if i went into a 15 wouldnt be good as im used to dpsing

outer solstice
#

anyone has some tips to see the ghosts during adds better?

uneven mason
#

its directional iirc

outer solstice
#

I know when the ghosts are coming

#

wait

#

srsly?

uneven mason
#

srsly

outer solstice
#

*gasp

#

*puts headphones on

#

ty

#

will give it a try

#

how will they behave in terms of 1st ghost/2nd ghost?

spark ermine
#

also, ghosts targeting you are red.

outer solstice
#

yeah...

#

no way

uneven mason
#

so is literally fucking everything else in that room

spark ermine
#

haha

#

Fair

outer solstice
#

I don't have problems seeing the ghosts themselves xD just when adds are up the same moment

uneven mason
#

Ghosts give me PTSD to mythic jadefire

signal plover
#

Get plater and have it color the nameplates of the ghosts a weird ass color

outer solstice
#

the ghosts can have plates?

signal plover
#

O wait fuck

#

No

outer solstice
#

haha lol

signal plover
#

Shut up nerds

outer solstice
#

you scared me

#

that I'm a retard

uneven mason
#

can't even target them can you?

outer solstice
#

*shuts up

signal plover
#

I thought u meant spiteful

outer solstice
#

nah we talkin lady

signal plover
#

Sound is best for those, or just an annoying WA

outer solstice
#

how does a WA help locating them?

#

knowing when they spawn is no problem

signal plover
#

It doesn't, it just tells you when to expect the strikes

uneven mason
#

Legit found out 2 of my raiders in Mythic Dazalor were keyboard turners due to Jadefire masters

outer solstice
#

I have some problems with the overlap just on the 3rd adds, as I get the cast just the moment after I pulled her between the adds

uneven mason
#

not looking forward to that again

signal plover
#

So when it pops you tell your smooth brain to track the drops rather than tunneling on the adds n other distractions

outer solstice
#

3rd adds (2nd adds if you skip firsts)

outer solstice
#

but gonna give the sound method a try

signal plover
#

Beyond that just git gud

#

Hide mistakes with SW

outer solstice
#

xD

signal plover
#

Deflect blame

mossy sluice
#

the angle you can turn towards them is pretty large as well

uneven mason
#

fiddle with your colorblind settings until it seperates the shades of red.

outer solstice
#

nah I help out our healers with SW

signal plover
#

Same thing

uneven mason
#

if you know you're going to get trucked because (bad) for a mechanic

#

SW is there for you.

outer solstice
#

our DPS are having some big problems dealign with the orbs ... and I don't wanna mess up the one good killshot we have

mossy sluice
#

watched our dh tank get 4 stacks and i hate having 2. yep tattoos

outer solstice
#

nah if you hold SW for when you mess up you're not playing to your ability

#

I prefer to use SW when a healers is running

uneven mason
#

#logic

outer solstice
#

haha xD

#

I didn't mess up though

#

it worked but felt sooooooooo unsure

signal plover
#

K

#

That's darkvein

uneven mason
#

trust in the force luke

outer solstice
#

yeah she's dark xD

#

we got her to 10% just before the first double bounce

#

at 4:50 or so

uneven mason
#

o

outer solstice
#

so basically a kill once our DPS figure out how to soak

#

with 2nd pots

uneven mason
#

CANT SOAK MUST TUNNEL DPS, THEY SAID IT WAS A DPS RACE, CAN"T SOAK, DPS LOSS!

outer solstice
#

well bigger problem is that the orbs are often still up

#

and they are spinny orbs

uneven mason
#

And

#

if the orbs are up

#

like, oof, so like, that's what ya'll need to be quick on

#

figure out the long end

#

quick

true olive
#

Yeah you're still in wipe territory under 5% if your dps tunnels

outer solstice
#

yep

#

doing the spinny orbs quick is the solution

#

but can't help em

uneven mason
#

Legit seen kills where the NL suit of armor is the only thing left standing

mossy sluice
#

that was our first kill

uneven mason
#

Lady D is in a league of her own

night pebble
#

We rockin with AM now with reprisal or still bolster?

#

for M+

true olive
#

We killed her on pull 12 but reclear was frustrating af

outer solstice
night pebble
outer solstice
#

we're like 50 pulls in

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that's a tad frustrating

uneven mason
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Why is it like, some bosses, my poor guild for example, killed our first HCArtificer in 3 pulls - continually wipes on him 3x for the next several weeks.
33 pulls on HC Council - legit one shot every time since our first kill.

chilly brook
outer solstice
chilly brook
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Eh

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It's just a dumb boss

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You waste so much time

uneven mason
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I just think guilds trying to do Nek 3rd are just asking to be ass slapped

outer solstice
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well I have 0 XP on council so far

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some tries on artificer and I can see myself falling asleep on that one

uneven mason
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it makes 0 sense to do him in that order with spending so much time dealing with his adds.

chilly brook
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Eh

uneven mason
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drags the fight out insanely long

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to where that stacking DoT fucks you

chilly brook
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Higher guilds disagree

uneven mason
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I guess

chilly brook
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

uneven mason
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if you have pumpers DPS

mossy sluice
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think you need pumpers w/ frieda last as well

uneven mason
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I've had to accept that my DPS will never pump

outer solstice
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yeah if you can beat the DPS check

chilly brook
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It's just ass because you have to waste so much time getting to the last phase to actually prog

uneven mason
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Frieda is the least pumpers intensive of the councilmembers

outer solstice
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@uneven mason I think your still pump more than mine

uneven mason
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I doubt it

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we enraged mythic Shriek

outer solstice
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haha same here...

uneven mason
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but to be fair we had 19

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because Roster boss hardest boss.

outer solstice
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yeah

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we kicked both main tanks

elfin nova
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they nerfed the fight and various adds multiple times though

uneven mason
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We didn't kick them - they just happened to be the only 2 people left in the old guild that we all abandoned.

chilly brook
elfin nova
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i think not-niklaus last is not trolling anymore

chilly brook
elfin nova
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yea

uneven mason
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yeah if the vanguard is nerfed than, probably just need non flipperhanded DPS

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I'll findout in (2 weeks past when I get 20 people consistently)

elfin nova
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i mean i still think niklaus last is the best but also there's no point changing it if you've already killed it

uneven mason
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so February 30th

elfin nova
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i think you just prog killing first vanguard in 100-50 phase now and the dps check is only really in the 50-0 push to kill before your tanks die

chilly brook
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We wiped at like 15%

blazing condor
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peepostudy today i learned you can upgrade gear in your covenants too

signal plover
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Nik last is actually a joke once your dps figures out it's a prio dps fight and not an aoe pad

chilly brook
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Cuz some people dont understand mechanics still

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Dark recital right as the vanguard drops

signal plover
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Granted you need tanks that are somewhat competent, and a pally rly helps

uneven mason
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always

astral crystal
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if your guild likes council, they're gonna love SLG

chilly brook
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We NeEd To GrOuP bAcK uP aNd FiGuRe OuT hOw To DeAl WiTh ThAt

signal plover
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Ya SLG is uhhh

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Fun

chilly brook
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Unironically doesn't know that you just need to group back up with the one person you're tethered to

young oasis
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I did it last night, first time

plush tendon
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We are on mythic sludge now; just got to wait while ions guild catches up so he can nerf it for himself 🙂

young oasis
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Crazy fight

uneven mason
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"If you love chewing glass, then you'll love this 👉 *shows a donkey dryhumping a cactus"

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that close eonugh with Council to SLG?

astral crystal
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accurate

sweet summit
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council is not near as bad as slg imo

uneven mason
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right

sweet summit
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but dps perspective

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so idk how tanks have it

astral crystal
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tanking is boring on both fights

signal plover
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"ok guys everyone focus the goliath this time while 2 of us clean up skirmishers"....skirmishers die before goliath...k then

young oasis
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Dunno, I like it

uneven mason
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tanking hc slg is annoying, cant wait for mythic

astral crystal
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i learned everything i needed to about slg in about 50 pulls, including the time it takes to get comfy with it

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90% of that fight is DPS priority damaging and not dying to dumb shit

signal plover
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I'm progging SLG with reprisal for funs

uneven mason
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My DPS don't understand the concept of "Stop standing on the tanks plz"

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"oh another laceration stack, thanks #DKwhoisoutofpositionagain"

astral crystal
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i wouldn't be so mad at the fact that slg exists

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if there weren't THREE 9-10 minute fights in the same tier

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almost back to back

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that's just goofy

uneven mason
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Council - SLG - SIre

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yeah its hard to make progress on the final phase when it takes you 6 minutes to get there.

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at least you have Sludge in the middle there

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which is easy to know when you're going to kill him or not

astral crystal
uneven mason
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yeah no I Mean, there is a DK who stands in the wrong spot when not targeted by wicked blade

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so it splashes everyone in melee

astral crystal
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what a king

uneven mason
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eh, we worked through it

primal mauve
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So I've been thinking about switching covenants...

uneven mason
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fixed it

subtle tulip
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Howdy, whats the recommended talent build for mythics if you go with The Wall? Dont have the soul ash for reprisal.

uneven mason
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run Bolster and BV

sweet summit
subtle tulip
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thank you!

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always can count on you guys

ocean bloom
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I like bounding more than CT

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But that row is personal preference mostly

naive panther
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crackling is trash now that you fill with tc

opal sedge
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Anger is fine with all legendary

naive panther
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i swapped to bounding

elfin nova
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tanking slg is honestly not that bad now

real grotto
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0.5 convince anyone to switch covenants?

elfin nova
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but the fight overall is pretty horrible to progress for the whole raid ofc

sweet summit
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CT/BS is w/e

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both are fine

naive panther
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been fae since start of expansion

distant furnace
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I'm brand new to prot. Does ravager yield more dps than unstoppable force + anger mgmt. I feel like I have avatar up all the time and push tons of aoe dps rotating between tclap and revenge w/ best served cold. Some of those may not relate to each other, idk, just like theory crafting the aoe dps potential

outer solstice
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I don't like UF

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it's either itf or ravager for me

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I often don't even have the time to Tclap with all the slam resets anyway xD

uneven mason
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UF feels bad man

distant furnace
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Gotcha. I'm a noob tank so maybe I'm not slamming everytime it resets lol thanks

uneven mason
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To put it plainly, Revenge hits harder than TC even under UF buffing, TC eats up a ton of GCDs, which creates an opportunity cost, both in spending rage in Revenges ( which cycles Avatars CD faster) and the fact that you're missing out on free damage (ravager)

opal sedge
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Easier to kit with ravager 2

uneven mason
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0.01% of the population actually has to kite

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IDK why it gets brought up so often

outer solstice
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it was from start of the expansion

opal sedge
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U never pug

outer solstice
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before some of the dangerous packs were nerfed

distant furnace
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Makes sense. Thanks dudes

uneven mason
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I mean, the 2 caster packs in DoS were the only 2 I ever felt I "Had" to kite

opal sedge
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Hehe pretty much

outer solstice
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why would you kite casters?

uneven mason
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you LOS

outer solstice
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yeah

uneven mason
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Kiting = run away to avoid damage

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legit what I'd do there

uneven mason
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hit SW/SR/DS slap damage into it for 5 seconds, and leap down stairs

onyx moon
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just like so

uneven mason
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YUP

atomic shore
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what is the best covenant now for prot warriors guys ?

outer solstice
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for what content?

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what level?

onyx moon
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all around kyrian is still best

outer solstice
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nah

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M+ NF is better

atomic shore
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what is the bannar u are talking about right now ?

outer solstice
onyx moon
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NECROBRO

uneven mason
blazing condor
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I personally play kyrian and like it

shy path
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Wish Condemn didn’t suck so much

blazing condor
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but NF is just as viable

night depot
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I like heal phial aswell always handy as

atomic shore
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WHAT IS THE d4 ?

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soz caps lols

uneven mason
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4 sided dice

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I mean, basically all of them are good in their own situation

atomic shore
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k

onyx moon
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Necrolord, kyrian, and Night Fae are all competative

uneven mason
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Kyrian/NF are going to be solid in all situations

outer solstice
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yeah and ventyr is a close last

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not far of

night depot
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annoying since venth is best for off spec

outer solstice
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nah

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NF with the buffed legendary is actually stronger for Arms in theory

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in ST

onyx moon
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necrolord is just harder to use as its more about powering up your party and have to cordinate CDs

outer solstice
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enduring blow build that is

night depot
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so annoying having an off spec though, changing conduits etc does my head in lol

outer solstice
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that's why NF is so fun

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Niya for prot raid

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korayn for M+ fury

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Podweaver for Arms PvP

night depot
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makes sense i guess :p

uneven mason
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why podweaver in PVP?
they can still kill you in that.

onyx moon
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Emeni for prot and Maralyn for Arms pvp

outer solstice
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yeah and if they don't you get a free life

uneven mason
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its not a full heal

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rather take something that makes you pumpers

outer solstice
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if you run with a pally heal it is

uneven mason
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like Niya, 12% (minimum) max HP and 10%ish mastery for 30s

chilly brook
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And I think you can BoP the pod and stuff

uneven mason
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Yeah you can I suppose

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TFW they could just BoP you before you die, since afaik it doesn't stop you from attacking anymore

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Not sure if thats still the behavior in arena